Common Enemies : Disease Campaigns in America
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0190918411
ISBN-13
9780190918415
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 13th, 2019
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
382 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.50 x 1.50 cms
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Drawing on a century of data, Common Enemies reveals why disease campaigns are the battles Americans come together to fight, why certain diseases rose to prominence, and how fighting one disease at a time changes the way we distribute resources, conceptualize problems, and promote health. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, Rachel Kahn Best persuasively demonstrates how disease campaigns have created unintended consequences for health policy.
For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health policy and how the fixation on diseases shapes efforts to improve lives. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in an unprecedented history of disease politics, Best shows that to achieve consensus, disease campaigns tend to neglect stigmatized diseases and avoid controversial goals. But despite their limitations, disease campaigns do not crowd out efforts to solve other problems. Instead, they teach Americans to give and volunteer and build up public health infrastructure, bringing us together to solve problems and improve our lives.
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